Tatum Tutoring

We had the pleasure of meeting Audie Tatum three years ago when he started giving music lessons to our three sons. I was immediately impressed with how he could turn lessons into fun and, as a result, how quickly they began to learn. I was even more impressed with his innate ability to adjust his teaching methods to fit the needs of each individual learning style. He is never satisfied if a child just «doesn’t get it» and will do what it takes to adjust HIS teaching style to meet the needs of the child.
Audie is also extremely patient, supportive, and encouraging — everything that makes a positive learning environment. Over the years, our children’s areas of focus and needs have changed, and Audie is always ready and willing to adjust his lessons and game plan. Our children enjoy their lessons, and that is a sign of a great teacher in my book.

Our three daughters attended Audie’s Brain Engage summer program last summer, and they are still talking 4 months later about what great fun they had. Our girls spent their days at Brain Engage learning musical instruments and building engineering projects — being exposed to new learning environments to which they have not been exposed in other enrichment programs. Audie did a super job managing a gaggle of 7 – 10 year old for all day sessions and his assistant, a local high school-​aged youth, was incredibly patient and encouraging to our daughters. Given that most of the other programs in which we enrolled our daughters were through the local HARD organization, we were slightly concerned about the quality of an ‘independent’ educational operator. Any concerns we had were quickly put to rest at dinner as our kids fought to tell my wife and I about every detail of their exciting day the first night of the Brain Engage program. I couldn’t recommend Audie more highly and we are already planning to have our girls participate again in his dynamic program next summer.

Mr. Tatum brings out the best in my son! As a credentialed Music and Science teacher with decades worth of teaching experience, his sincere passion for science and music is infectious. He is genuinely warm and considerate. His teaching method allow kids to do what they do best, learn by having fun!
The tutoring facility is modest but packed with all manner of musical instrument including a full drum set. There are also endless boxes of Lego and Erector sets with engines so that projects can be animated if desired.
For kids that love building or engineering and or playing music, Mr. Tatum’s classroom environment is simply awesome. My son wants to learn to play the drums and is doing so before we invest in his own set. He also seemed to learn and retain more scientific principals in one week of attending Mr. Tatum’s Spring Break Camp than he may have learned all last year at public school.
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Audie Tatum is a Credential Music & Science Teacher with C.PR. Training. Alameda County License Number 125 595.
Mr Tatum was my daughter s tutor. She went from last chair to first chair.
She even made Alamedas Honor band.
He has a very sincere care for each student. I highly recomend him.